New Easily Assembled Mechanical Splicer for Direct Coated Optical Fibre Connection without Stripping and Cleaning

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Son, Hitoshi; Kihara, Mitsuru; Tomita, Shigeru (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, 1-7-1, Hanabatake, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, 305-0805, Japan)

Abstract:
We propose a new type of mechanical splicer that provides easy assembly. It has good performance with a low average insertion loss of 0.2 dB and a high return loss of over 46 dB.